
Inventing the Modern
Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 3. September 2024
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-1-63345-079-0 (ISBN)
Description
Profiles of fourteen women who transformed the country's foremost modern art museum in its fledgling years.
Founded in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art owes much of its success to a group of remarkable women who shaped its future during its first decades. Because there were few precedents for a museum devoted to modern art, MoMA was free to invent itself without the requirements-professional experience, competitive salaries-that traditionally limited an art institution's jobs to men. At MoMA women were able to create and define their roles as founders, patrons, curators, and department directors, changing, as they did so, the course of art history. In this volume, readers are transported to the grit and glamour of midtown Manhattan in the 1930s and '40s through profiles of fourteen pioneering figures who made an indelible mark not only on MoMA but on the culture of their time.
Founded in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art owes much of its success to a group of remarkable women who shaped its future during its first decades. Because there were few precedents for a museum devoted to modern art, MoMA was free to invent itself without the requirements-professional experience, competitive salaries-that traditionally limited an art institution's jobs to men. At MoMA women were able to create and define their roles as founders, patrons, curators, and department directors, changing, as they did so, the course of art history. In this volume, readers are transported to the grit and glamour of midtown Manhattan in the 1930s and '40s through profiles of fourteen pioneering figures who made an indelible mark not only on MoMA but on the culture of their time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
235 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
962 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63345-079-0 (9781633450790)
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Persons
Ann Temkin is the MarieJosée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Romy Silver-Kohn is a researcher in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Anna Deavere Smith is an actress and playwright credited with creating a new form of documentary theater. She is a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts and the founding director of New York University's Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue.
Romy Silver-Kohn is a researcher in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Anna Deavere Smith is an actress and playwright credited with creating a new form of documentary theater. She is a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts and the founding director of New York University's Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue.
Content
Foreword by Anna Deavere Smith
Introduction by Ann Temkin and Romy Silver-Kohn
1. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller by Mary Schmidt Campbell
2. Lillie P. Bliss by Kate Walbert
3. Mary Quinn Sullivan by Nell Irvin Painter
4. Margaret Scolari Barr by Lanka Tattersall
5. Ernestine Fantl Carter by Juliet Kinchin
6. Iris Barry by Farran Smith Nehme
7. Elodie Courter by Romy Silver-Kohn
8. Sarah Newmeyer by Sloane Crosley
9. Dorothy Miller by Mary Gabriel
10. Dorothy Dudley by Roberta Smith
11. Nancy Newhall by Brenda Wineapple
12. Elizabeth Mock by Jennifer Gray
13. Olga Guggenheim by Ann Temkin
14. Jean Volkmer by Anne Umland
Introduction by Ann Temkin and Romy Silver-Kohn
1. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller by Mary Schmidt Campbell
2. Lillie P. Bliss by Kate Walbert
3. Mary Quinn Sullivan by Nell Irvin Painter
4. Margaret Scolari Barr by Lanka Tattersall
5. Ernestine Fantl Carter by Juliet Kinchin
6. Iris Barry by Farran Smith Nehme
7. Elodie Courter by Romy Silver-Kohn
8. Sarah Newmeyer by Sloane Crosley
9. Dorothy Miller by Mary Gabriel
10. Dorothy Dudley by Roberta Smith
11. Nancy Newhall by Brenda Wineapple
12. Elizabeth Mock by Jennifer Gray
13. Olga Guggenheim by Ann Temkin
14. Jean Volkmer by Anne Umland